The secret of wealth

In the movie “Defending Your Life”, Daniel finds himself in the presence of a divine court. After dying in an accident, it decides whether to send him back to earth to continue to learn, or let him progress. The only indictment is “how much he feared in life.”

“You keep thinking it’s about money. It’s about fear”.

Think of the time when you did not even try.

All times you said “it’s too late,” “it’s too soon,” or “not for me”.

It is never what you thought it was, but fear.

In particular, wealth and poverty have nothing to do with the money. They are rather a reflection of own safety. Daniel thought he was worth $ 70,000, he fantasized about it, dreamed about it and demanded it.

With his wife, he showed security that vanished when he was outside of the house. In the end, he accepts $ 49,000. Below his expectations, and below that for which he was prepared.

Only after he realises that his self-esteem has taken a blow, he tries to rationally justify what happened “emotionally”:

“The suit had an odor that said $ 49,000.” “…you don’t know all my reasons. Anyway, we lived fine on that money”.

“You keep thinking it’s about money. It’s about fear”.

One day it will be proved that each of us has an internal thermostat, a kind of homeostatic mechanism, which shows your income at the exact level you can tolerate it.

Once past this line, with a burning desire to earn more, you are immediately taken back to your maximum level: unconscious sabotage, talking crickets, only apparently random events that seem to lash out against your ambition for growth.

This “hurdle” is created as a result of past experiences, of education received on wealth. Here are just some of the “programming” received:

• “Don’t play with money“; “Money is to be used for things that you need“; “There is no money” (the unaware puppeteers: Parents)
• “All the arguments in this house are over the lack of money” (the unaware puppeteers: the Family)
• “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven” (puppeteer: the Church)
• “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven” (puppeteer: the Church)
• “St. Francis of Assisi stripped himself of wealth to give it to the poor” (puppeteer: the Church)
• The negative meaning given to ‘Uncle Scrooge’, Donald Duck’s rich uncle (puppeteer: the Media)
• Robin Hood “stole from the rich and gave to the poor” (puppeteer: the Media)
• The negative connotation attached to all the characters to be defeated in the movies: the bad guys always rich (puppeteer: the Media)

After going through years of similar beliefs, some deeply instilled in our subconscious memories, creating a sort of “ceiling” beyond which it is difficult to go. Projects postponed, instinctive responses like that of Daniel, inability to make decisions or make important decisions for yourselves. Even when it seems that you are having a stroke of luck, something inexplicable happens that takes you back to the starting point. But are there exceptions? There is someone who, despite having gone down a difficult winding path, has managed to get past the hurdles?

Take for example the Cinema:

• Did you know that Al Pacino was born poor, and was forced into prostitution (yes, you’ve got it right!) to get by, until he started acting?
• Did you know that Sylvester Stallone had always lived in precarious conditions? He was offered $ 25,000 in exchange for the Rocky script, but he refused it wanting to be the protagonist of the film at all costs. The rest is history.
• Did you know that Woody Allen, of Jewish origin, was born to modest parents who emigrated to America in order to overcome famine?
• We could quote hundreds of examples, in any field of human excellence, of individuals who have made the breakthrough to wealth despite having first hand experience of the conditioning from their parents, the church and the media. Despite the precarious situation that they lived, they paved their own way and continued to make money, perhaps living with a little fear.

So what is their secret?

The passion for their work. They chose to do what they liked best, the things that they had the most talent for. For them there was no alternative, and no matter if at the beginning a wage slip was just a mirage, it was important for them to do what they would have done for free.

Passion bypasses “the unconscious wealth regulator.” It is true, it is not about “money”, it is “fear,” and this is defeated with a passion. Do what you love to do, do it for free and persist. Money will chase you.

“… and in case I don’t see ya…

good afternoon, good evening and good night!”…

(The Truman Show)

Virginio